Rhapta
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 05, 2022 11:20 AM
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History
A city and trading port on the east coast of Africa, mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and other sources. Probably to be located in the vicinity of modern Dar es-Salaam in Tanzania. Its location has not been archaeologically verified.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39414
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- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Imagery location of Dar es Salaam (modern)
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- Ῥάπτα (Rhapta: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Less than certain: Dar es Salaam (Swahili, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 A7 Rhapta
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dar es-Salaam TAN
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Rhapta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39414> [accessed: 27 May 2022]
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